Bemish realized that the foxy official managed the most astonishing insider deal in the stock market history — he had dropped the market's rating at the very bottom and had bought everything. He knew that after his ultimatum, Weia would obtain the federal exchange status and his investments would increase tenfold. Suddenly Bemish understood why Shavash agreed to the president's condition — not to participate in the elections — so easily.

'Why did you instigate the whole thing?' Bemish asked. 'Did you want to get 2000 % profit in ten days? Were you trying to save your country or were you spinning an insider deal?'

'Where is insider trading here?' Shavash was surprised. 'I didn't know how your government would reply to my proposal.'

'And still, having reaped your profits, you refused to become the first minister of Weia.'

Here Shavash smiled slowly and victoriously.

'There are a lot of people,' he said, 'who are worthier of this appointment than I am. At a certain point, Mr. Nan was dismissed from the first minister position under the pretext that he was a citizen of another country. They passed a law that made it impossible for foreigners to hold governmental appointments. Now, we are all citizens of the same state and the law is no longer valid. You have to agree, that it will be quite advantageous if an Earthman represents our country in the Assembly of the heads of the states.'

Bemish was completely shocked.

'Shavash, everybody thought that you betrayed Nan.'

'Never follow the general opinion, Terence. If you had thought better about me, you would have been a billion or two richer today.'

Having said this, the small official bowed ceremoniously to the Earthman and walked down the path, back to the carved spires and onion shaped turrets of the main palace pavilions.

THE FIFTEENTH CHAPTER

Where the saviors of the Country of Great Light pull the biggest insider deal in the history of the Galaxy

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